‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Hits $500 Million at Worldwide Box Office

The film has taken in $255.2 million domestically as of Monday after winning the box office last weekend. It should soon surpass Marvel-Disney’s “Captain America” at $259.8 million to become the year’s top domestic grosser. Disney noted that it also released the year’s fifth-highest domestic grosser with “Maleficent” at $237.6 million.

“Guardians of the Galaxy” has grossed $245.3 million with several key markets yet to open, including Germany, Italy, Japan and China.

Jenn t, it’s not just the marketing campaign. It was also an incredibly entertaining movie. It was also an incredible risk, throwing a bunch of largely unknown actors playing even less known characters with a director whose biggest claim to fame was writing the Scooby-Doo movies. This movie earned every dollar it got because everyone involved worked their asses off to make it a success.

Lets hope the remaining countries coming up can help get Guardians of the Galaxy to attempt a shot over a billion worldwide, China and Japan in particular. Let’s hope the people in those 2 countries think of this as better than Transformers.